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Yamada Lab
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The lab takes on chemistry that no one else is doing, driven by the twin pillars of synthetic chemistry and physical chemistry.
AboutAbout the lab
Original chemistry, driven by synthesis and physical chemistry
The Yamada Lab builds on both synthetic chemistry and physical chemistry, aiming to create research concepts and functions that are entirely its own.
For example, it has brought ideas from physical chemistry, such as interactions between molecules and phase transitions, into thermocells, which extract electricity from heat.
The lab also synthesizes ionic plastic crystals, coordination polymers that selectively take up ions, and flexible silicon-based molecules.
The lab started in 2020 and is looking for graduate students who will enjoy the moment a new theme takes shape from scratch.
Key terms
- Thermocell
- A thermoelectric conversion device that uses redox reactions in solution to extract electricity from a temperature difference
- Ionic plastic crystal
- An ionic crystal with a phase intermediate between solid and liquid, in which molecules and ions rotate in place while remaining periodically arranged
- Coordination polymer
- A material formed by metal ions bonded to organic ligands, with a jungle-gym-like structure
NewsLab news
Research results on redox-active polymer brushes published in Polymer Journal
Undergraduate students received the Faculty of Science Academic Encouragement Award and the Department of Chemistry Head's Award, respectively
A master's student received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Electrochemical Society of Japan
A student received an Outstanding Award at the NCHU–UTokyo Joint Mini-Symposium
Paper showing that the enthalpy/entropy compensation relationship holds in thermocells published in JACS
ResearchResearch themes
With synthetic chemistry and physical chemistry as the twin foundations of its research, the lab aims to realize original research concepts and functions of its own. It takes on a wide range of fields with its own ideas, including thermocells, ionic plastic crystals, coordination polymers, and conjugated systems of silicon and carbon.
*Illustrative imageThermocells incorporating molecular technologies
A thermocell is a somewhat unusual thermoelectric conversion device that uses redox reactions in solution to extract electricity from heat. The lab has incorporated molecular technologies into it, such as host-guest reactions, proton-coupled electron transfer reactions, and polymer phase transitions.
*Illustrative imageIonic plastic crystals
Between solid and liquid there are intermediate phases. In the plastic crystal phase, molecules and ions rotate in place while remaining periodically arranged. Using molecular synthetic chemistry, the lab creates new materials that show this phase and investigates their uses as ion conductors and heat transfer media.
*Illustrative imageElectrochemical phase transition phenomena
Just as water freezes at 0 °C, assemblies of molecules abruptly change their state of aggregation at certain temperatures and pressures. In this lab, electrical stimuli are used to search for new phases.
*Illustrative imageIon-selective coordination polymers
Crystals of coordination polymers have voids about the size of molecules, so they can be viewed as supramolecular hosts made of crystals. The lab created porous coordination polymers that stably take up ions even in water, and succeeded in extracting only ammonium ions.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yamada Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, project researchers, academic specialists, and specialist staff.As of 2026
- ProfessorTeppei YamadaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorYoshinori YamanoiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorHongyao Zhou
- Project Assistant ProfessorKunyi LENG
- Project Assistant ProfessorTappei TanabePublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Potassium ferricyanide and its solution” Leiem / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Thermocells incorporating molecular technologies: “Daniell cell picture” がんばれへんて
こりん / Public domain (cropped) - Ionic plastic crystals: “Paraffin” Gmhofmann / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Electrochemical phase transition phenomena: “Ice Crystals - Flickr - spurekar” spurekar / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Ion-selective coordination polymers: “MOF-5 Crystal Structure” Axs154 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yanai Lab): “Pentacene molecule spacefill from xtal” Jynto (more from this user) / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Isobe Lab): “Carbon nanotube (8,8) 3D ball” Jynto / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tsukuda Lab): “Gold255” Aleksandar Kondinski / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ohkoshi Lab): “Pigment Berliner Blau” Saalebaer / CC0 (cropped)
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